I sat by myself at the bonfire. Everyone else was playing drinking games and socialising. I sat fiddling with my drink and rings but as I looked up I saw a boy. He had everyone around him, he was the centre of attention. He seemed to get along with everyone, laughing every 5 seconds but when he turned into those little lights I had scattered around the beach I went numb. I stopped fiddling, and stopped slouching. He was the prettiest boy I'd ever seen, no matter how hard I had tried I just couldn't look away.
I would've blamed it on my ADHD but I knew damn well that wasn't the case, it was this boy's appearance that had me so captivated, the way he held himself and the way he spoke to everyone, he was the life of the party. Suddenly a girl walked over to his side and he grabbed her waist and pulled her close but didn't look at her. 'Lucky girl' I thought to myself and just like that, I'm back to fiddling.
The party went on for what felt like forever, but still, I couldn't look away from this boy, everytime I'd scan the party, watch the people having fun, my eyes would just stick to him. Why was I even feeling this way? I had had a bunch of girlfriends in the past, so why was this boy that I hadn't even spoken to make me feel more than any girl I've ever spoken to? I couldn't make any sense of the situation.
Eventually I got up and got a drink, I was basically the only one who had a non-alcoholic drink.
I was pouring it into my small red solo cup when someone came and bumped into me. It was rather gentle. I thought it must've been some drunk girl stumbling to get another drink because of the weight of this person. But I was wrong.
When I turned around I saw the boy, he looked up at me, he was significantly shorter than me but boy was he even prettier up close. He had long, thick, dark brown hair. He grabbed my arm gently, still looking into my eyes and said:
"Oh my goodness I'm so sorry!" he was genuinely sorry, somehow I could just tell.
"I-it's okay, really" I looked away, if I had looked at this boy any longer. I don't know what I'd do, but it certainly wouldn't be good.
The boy tilted his head slightly, trying to find my eyes and said
"Wow your eyes are such a nice green" with a gentle smile. slyly, he poured some of the non-alcoholic drink into his cup, his body blocking the view from everyone else.
"Um, I'll see you around, I guess" he said walking over to the alcoholic drink and pouring into his cup but completely missing, infact I would've thought it was an accident if the events beforehand did not occur but then it hit me. It was all on purpose, so people would think he drunk alcohol therefore meaning that he didn't mean anything that he said to me, what a stab in the heart. The worst part of it, as much as I wanted to leave, I couldn't leave Nick here and I couldn't leave him here to clean everything up and so I went back to the bonfire and went on my phone.
I sat and put in my earphones, (air pods are overrated) and played my "party playlist". It's not what you think.
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Hi guys Astra here! If you want to listen to Dreams 'party playlist' YOU CAN! That's right, I've made (multiple) playlists for the characters, there's 2 for dream and 1 for George! If you click the table of contents at the bottom you will find a 'chapter' that's called "SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS". All the links to the playlists are there :)
Love u <3
(edit) as i havent finished the book the link for the party playlist is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/526uQpZvdQd3oG9wxfqJQJ?si=91e90cddc2f14a42
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We Were Liars (DNF)
ספרות חובבים"Florida summers were the best. No school, just parties and fun that starts at the break of dawn when the sun first hits the surface and dives into the stars of the deep night. Endless opportunities and endless cards of fate. Choices and refusals we...
